* Deployments that cannot make progress in rolling out the newest version will now indicate via the API they are blocked
* Introduce apps/v1beta1.Deployments resource with modified defaults compared to extensions/v1beta1.Deployments. ([#39683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39683), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-2)
    - [CVE-2023-2728: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin](#cve-2023-2728-bypassing-enforce-mountable-secrets-policy-imposed-by-the-serviceaccount-admission-plugin)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-4)
    - [Feature](#feature-4)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-4)

- Component-base/logs: when compiled with Go >= 1.21, component-base will automatically configure the slog default logger together with initializing klog. ([#120696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120696), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture,...

  // +-------+-------+-------+
  // The number of domains is less than 5(MinDomains), so "global minimum" is treated as 0.
  // In this situation, new pod with the same labelSelector cannot be scheduled,
  // because computed skew will be 3(3 - 0) if new Pod is scheduled to any of the three zones,
  // it will violate MaxSkew.
  //

- The dashboard add-on unchanged from v1.10: v1.8.3. ([#57326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57326))
- Bump Heapster to v1.6.0-beta as compared to v1.5.2 in v1.11  ([#67074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67074))
- Cluster Autoscaler has been upgraded to v1.12.0 ([#s8739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68739))

  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-2)
    - [CVE-2023-2728: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin](#cve-2023-2728-bypassing-enforce-mountable-secrets-policy-imposed-by-the-serviceaccount-admission-plugin)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-9)
    - [Feature](#feature-9)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-9)

* etcd version 3.0.17

* Go version: 1.8.3. [Link to announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-dev/0XRRz6UhhTM/YODWVnuDBQAJ)

    * Kubernetes can only be compiled with Go 1.8. Support for all other versions is dropped.


### Previous Releases Included in v1.7.0
- [v1.7.0-rc.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v170-rc1)

* ✏ Fix minor typos in `docs/en/docs/async.md`. PR [#5125](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5125) by [@Ksenofanex](https://github.com/Ksenofanex).
* 📝 Add external link to docs: "Fastapi, Docker(Docker compose) and Postgres". PR [#5033](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5033) by [@krishnardt](https://github.com/krishnardt).